Vardy insists he will continue at Leicester

HAD anyone suggested at the start of the season that tomorrow’s game between Manchester City and Leicester would have a huge bearing on the league title, they would have been ridiculed. We have to enjoy and win.

Pep Guardiola might be the future of Manchester City, with Pep slated to take over next season, but Manuel Pellegrini is still in charge.

Vardy has arguably been the star of the show for Ranieri’s side, with a stunning long-range opener against Liverpool helping him top the Premier League goalscoring charts by three from Tottenham’s Harry Kane.

Huth brushed aside Martin Demichelis to score a third-minute opener from Mahrez’s free-kick, as Manchester City failed to match the intensity of Claudio Ranieri’s men. He hasn’t scored in seven games in a row, but a goal against Stoke City and two against Liverpool suggest that he is back to his best.

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero says Leicester City counterpart Jamie Vardy is worthy of the praise coming his way this season as the sides prepare to meet in Saturday’s top-of-the-table Premier League clash.

Key to their incredible Roy-of-the-Rovers story has been the partnership between Vardy and midfielder Riyad Mahrez, who has blossomed in his second Premier League campaign.

After next Sunday’s visit to the Gunners, Leicester will face only four more games against teams in the top half of the table and, just as importantly, will not be involved in any other competition during the title run-in.

The Foxes continue to defy any expectations that they will fall away in the title battle, beating Liverpool 2-0 on Tuesday to remain out in front. Fernando will play alongside Fernandinho, with Yaya Toure playing in attacker role. Six first team players look set to miss out as Samir Nasri, Wilfried Bony, Kevin DeBruyne, Fabian Delph, Jesus Navas and captain Vincent Kompany are all sidelined. No injury concerns for the Foxes going into this contest.

Out of last ten games Man City have won five with three ties.

Bottom club Aston Villa’s hopes of avoiding relegation suffered another setback when they had Jordan Ayew sent off after 17 minutes for elbowing Aaron Cresswell before slipping to a predictable 2-0 defeat at sixth-placed West Ham United. If you see last season – just seeing numbers – Leicester from the beginning of the second round to game number 30, I think they have two points from 21. “We know it’s a tough match but from now there will only be tough matches”.